# What are these metal things on concrete benches **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-metal-things-on-concrete-benches/1025500 "2025-12-07T20:05:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 58
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-metal-things-on-concrete-benches/1025500/58 "2025-12-08T22:17:43Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Sure. But what is better to have public restrooms that need to be cleaned, or none, so that they defecate in the elevators etc, which are 10 times more difficult and expensive to clean? Except even when there are restrooms available many of them will still urinate and defecate on the sidewalk. Or behind the very building the public restrooms are in. A lot of them live and behave like wild rabid pigs. This accounts for the disdain the productive members of society have for them. Most of them are not the genteel individuals some of you fantisize they are. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-metal-things-on-concrete-benches/1025500)._